2023-12-01 –, Room 1
Language: English
This session is the founding General Assembly of the OpenStreetMap Africa association. Some background:
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OSM Africa, as it currently stands, is great, however, it will be very difficult for us to have a significant and organized impact on the state of business on the continent. Our strong current activity is the #SOTMAfrica conference currently being organized.
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The biggest challenge for OSM Africa at the moment is the absence of a dedicated steering committee, committed to driving the ideas discussed. What we have now is a kind of ad hoc committee, making things work. We don't think this is sustainable.
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A Constitutive General Assembly should enable a Committee to be set up to take this idea forward with a roadmap so that activities can start in 2024.
Willy Franck SOB is the CEO of SOGEFI, a company specialized in geospatial and land management. He is passionate about the implementation of open source location intelligence platforms in developing countries. He is an active member in the OpenStreetMap Community with which he created GeOsm, a key infrastructure of developing countries digital transformation. His expertise is recognised by several international institutions(The World Bank, GIZ, UNESCO, UN-Habitat, AFD, etc.),